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/ɑ:/• mask, ask, last, grass, class, glass, castle, mast, fast, past, master, disaster, raspberry, cast, half, after, crafty, daft, draught, laugh, graph, bath, path, chance, dance, enhance, answer, plant, grant, can't, aunt, advantage, banana, sample, example• BUT mass, lass, crass, frantic, ant, rant, ample = /æ;/• massage, garage, entourage• palm, calm, spa, Prague, father• shark, charming, heart, caviar, seminar, guitar, (to) mar, radar, scenario, arse, are, our (also /auə/)• reservoir, repertoire; sergeant, derby, clerk /ɒ/• bomb, everybody, orange, obvious, forest, lorry, hot dog• what, was, quality, quantity, quarry, quarrel, squash, squabble, swan, wallet, wasp, warrior, wander, yacht, Washington, Watson, Warwick​​• sausage, because, laurel (= alloro), cauliflower, (Hugh) Laurie• cough, Van Gogh, knowledge /ɔ:/• wore, shore, sore, bored, floor, poor, auditorium• four, pour, source, court,

tournament• war, warning, warm, reward, quarter

sure

board, abroad, boar, soar

ball, wall, (shopping) mall, enthralling

walk, bald, salt, Malta, water, thought, brought

taught, naughty, Laura, Paul, sauce, pause, nausea, sauna, Auckland

saw, law, straw, paw, flaw, awkward, yawn, awesome

Sean /ɔ:/ English vs American

If there is an ‘r’ in the spelling: Eng /ɔ:/ vs Am /ɔ:r/-floor, sore, war, pour

If there is not​ an ‘r’ in the spelling: Eng /ɔ:/ vs Am /ɑ:/-flaw, saw, ball, walk, taught, thought-Check Jon Hamm’s pronunciation of ‘saw, awesome, sort (of), more, called, forward, all, course’​ʌ/​

thunder, nun, sun, culture, vulture

mother, other, nothing; government, lovely, above, oven, (dis)cover; come, stomach,​(ac)company, Somers, th​ orough, worry

done, one, none, won,​ London, among, honey, money, month, sponge, onion, wonder

country, touch